Tuesday, April 24, 2012

April Platform Challenge: Day 24

My favorite part of this challenge has been connecting with so many new people and witnessing the way so many have been willing to share their stories and knowledge with each other. It's been incredible to watch a community develop. And as part of that community, it was great to chat with everyone on Twitter last week. Sooo...

Are you ready for another Twitter chat?

For today's task, take part in another #MNINB chat on Twitter. This time around, we'll shoot for an hour-long conversation starting at 8 p.m. (Atlanta, Georgia, time). I'll bring along a few general questions, but don't be shy about asking your own--directed at me and/or the group.

If you can't make the time (for instance, you live on the other side of the planet and will be fast asleep--or you're putting your kids to bed), don't worry. Just use the #MNINB hashtag to pose questions and/or connect with other April Platform Challenge participants throughout the day and the month.

Once you include the #MNINB hashtag in a tweet, you can click on it to see the full conversation linked to the #MNINB hashtag. Over time, Twitter updates the feed with new Tweets (just click on the button that says new Tweets).

If you use a social media caddy like Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, etc., you can actually set up a stream that collects anything tied to the #MNINB hashtag.

Anyway, I hope to see many of you on Twitter tonight.

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I'll miss this one unless my son's baseball game gets rained out, but I'll take the opportunity to learn how to stream it on Hootsuite. I'm having no problem interacting with the MNINB people...they're great!!

It's April 25 and I'm still catching up after a week's vacation, so I missed both last Tuesday's Twitter chat as well as yesterday's. But I do hope to figure out how to use Twitter (Luddites find this stuff troublesome) and join the next conversation somehow, although I'm living in France, and 8 PM is 2 AM here and I'm asleep then.

I figured out how to set up hash tag streams on HootSuite. #MNINB was not out there (I'm several months behind everyone else), so I participated in a different chat on Twitter, and watched a few others. There are some other topics I found that I'm interested in checking out further another time.